According to the exit poll published at 10pm, Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election has cost her party 17 seats and their majority - defying the near universal expectation that the Tories would make gains.

Before any actual results were called, Labour supporters appeared jubilant.

Gary Lineker, who has been a scathing critic of the Tory Government’s policies on child refugees, tweeted May had “won own goal of the season”.

It wasn’t just celebrities getting excited about the poll. Two former spokesmen for Labour leaders were

Tony Blair’s former spokesman Alastair Campbell tweeted that the exit poll showed the election had been “a rejection of May and hard Brexit”. “A vote for one to go and the other to be revisited,” he wrote.

This election is a rejection of May and hard Brexit. A vote for one to go and the other to be revisited.